Ah, ok. I've been getting a mysterious "limit reached" error message when using my piefed account with Thunder. I wasn't sure if that voting limit is the reason. I've had to switch to my lemmy account for a while.

Still, it sets bad precedent. Call me paranoid but the Tesseract debacle has tainted my trust.

So it’s how the data is viewed but still same folks populating it?

yes

Voyager works on PieFed too actually

https://join.piefed.social/docs/piefed-mobile/

https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-app

Piefed and Lemmy both intermix and talk to each other. What matters more is on the backend for mods and hosting communities. The big draw is Piefed has more features that help make moderation easier.

One thing on the user side that I like is how comments are handled. Since crossposting is common, Piefed allows you to see all comments from all crossposts as one thread so you don’t have to hop to the other post to see what’s being said. This is helpful if an article for example is posted to news communities on different instances.

The interaction limitation tho, I think that’s a bad call, even if it’s got an option to disable.

Voyager is a Lemmy/PieFed frontend. Kind of like how if you have a Gmail account, you can check your email using the official Gmail app or with any alternative email app like Thunderbird, K-Mail, Fairmail, the iOS Mail app, etc. if you want. Those apps are all just front ends for accessing your email account. Similarly, you can access Lemmy/PieFed via frontend apps like Voyager, Thunder, Blorp, etc.

Note that while many apps support both Lemmy/PieFed, some apps only support one or the other. For example, Jerboa is just a Lemmy app and does not support PieFed in any way.

Good to know some instances don't have it but the philosophy behind the decision turns me off the project as whole.